ahrefs Release Notes

We’ve got six updates this month, from Firehose, a brand-new real-time web monitoring product, to spoofed bot detection in Bot Analytics, and Tags in Social Media Manager.

Let’s dive in.

Firehose

Firehose is a new standalone Ahrefs product that turns the web into a live event stream.
You can either:

• Tell it what you’re looking for and it will match the web for you
• Give it a list of URLs and it tracks content changes over a set period.

Use it to catch brand mentions across news sites, blogs, and forums the moment they go live, track competitor launches and pricing changes, or build real-time news feeds curated by topic.
Pricing is separate from your Ahrefs subscription.

Brand Radar

All platforms view includes prompt- and search-based indexes

The All platforms view in AI visibility reports previously showed only one index type at a time. It now combines both prompt-based and search query-based indexes in a single view.

Your All platforms numbers may shift because the default view now pulls in more Google data. To compare prompt-based indexes on their own, use the Platform filter to select them directly.

General

Higher competitor limits across tools

Most plans now support 20 competitors per project, up from the previous limit. Enterprise v3 goes up to 100.

The raised limits apply across the Dashboard, Site Explorer, Rank Tracker, Content Gap, and Link Intersect.

NOTE: The Rank Tracker API still returns 10 competitors for now. An update is in progress.

Bot Analytics

Spoofed bot detection

Bot Analytics now verifies bots instead of trusting their User-Agent string.

A bot that claims a verifiable identity but fails the checks gets a (spoofed) suffix, for example Googlebot (spoofed), and moves into the new spoofed bot category.

Filter by Spoofed Bot to exclude fake traffic or to see only the fakes. Coverage will grow as more IP ranges are added.

Social Media Manager

Post tags

You can now label posts with custom tags: post types, teams, campaigns, or whatever fits your workflow. Tags are managed from the new Tags section and can be applied when creating or editing any post.

Tag analytics are coming later, so you’ll be able to see which campaigns drive the most engagement and which post types perform best.

API

Free Domain Rating

Do you want to check the website authority at scale?

You can now pull Domain Rating for as many domains as you need, or build it straight into your own tool.

NOTE: This endpoint currently works without authentication, but from 10th August 2026 it will require an API key. API keys are free, and the endpoint remains completely free.

New endpoints in APIv3

Three more additions landed in APIv3 this month:

• Rank Tracker tag endpoints: Add, replace, and delete tags on keywords in Rank Tracker via the API.
• Brand Radar citation endpoints: Pull citation metrics and historical time-series data from the Brand Radar API.
• Competitor domains in Rank Tracker: A new competitor domains endpoint, added alongside the existing competitor pages endpoint.

That’s all for this month. Check out our full changelog for the rest of the smaller updates, or leave any feature requests on our Canny board. Enjoy!

We’ve got 5 updates this month, from Agent B, our new embedded AI agent, to prompt-based indexes in Brand Radar and review management in GBP Monitor.

Let’s dive in.

Agent B

Agent B is now available under the Help menu as a side panel on any Ahrefs page.

It reads both the page you are on and your entire Ahrefs workspace, so you can ask it to summarize what is on screen, compare your site against competitors, or explain a spike in mentions.

It’s an agent rather than a chatbot because it runs Ahrefs API queries, navigates tools, and applies filters on its own to pull the data it needs.

Agent B is free for everyone during beta. Enterprise users can ask their account manager to switch it on.

Brand Radar

Cited pages: Bot visits and AI traffic columns

The Cited pages report now has two new columns for your website.

Bot visits pulls from Bot Analytics to show how often AI bots crawl each cited page, while AI traffic pulls from Web Analytics to show actual visits arriving from AI sources.

Both columns cover the last 90 days and link back to their core tools so you can dig deeper with one click.

Together they show which cited pages are actually driving AI traffic, not just getting crawled.

New prompt-based AI Overviews and AI Mode indexes

Brand Radar now tracks how AI responds to full, long-form questions via new prompt-based indexes for Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. This is closer to how people actually prompt these tools.

View all prompt-based platforms at once in a consistent layout, or use the Platform filter to focus on a specific one.

A few things to note on the transition:

• The AI Overviews keyword-based index keeps updating as before
• The old AI Mode index is no longer updated
• Historical data from the old AI Mode index stays available for a limited time

Site Audit

Fix with Agent A and Copy for AI

Issue pages now have a Fix with Agent A button. One click sends your current issues to Agent A, our AI marketing agent, which investigates and works through a fix in seconds.

If you prefer your own AI tool, the API button now includes a Copy for AI section in three places: Page Explorer, Single-issue view, and All issues report.

Each exports your top pages and issues as clean Markdown, ready to paste into any AI client.

GBP Monitor

Review management for Google business listings

Review management is now live in GBP Monitor. You can see reviews and ratings across all your Google business listings in one dashboard and reply to them inline, without switching between profiles.

AI-assisted replies and review intelligence are coming next.

Comments and Mentions report

The new Engagements section in Social Media Manager has two parts:

• Comments let you view and reply to comments on your social posts from one place
• Mentions round up everywhere your brand gets tagged or named across those same channels, whether in a post, a caption, or a comment on your own or external accounts

You can view full context, jump to the original post, mark mentions as open or closed, and filter by status or channel.

That’s all for this month. Check out our full changelog for the rest of the smaller updates, or leave any feature requests on our Canny board. Enjoy!